Whew, this summer has been SOMETHING. Many many Together Trips, and also a decent amount of trips for fun. I feel like I’ve been living out of suitcases and transferring items from one pouch to the next all summer long, so I thought it might be instructive to share a...
No doubt, a lot of us spend time each day in meetings, or situations that require some sort of notetaking. “How are you going to take notes?” was the very first question I asked my now-college freshman when we dropped her off at school this fall. I mean, I went to...
One of my favorite sections in The Together Teammate is around Closing Loops. Closing Loops is important for to-dos to be closed to finality, to ensure others know the status of tasks, and to avoid duplicate work. I was thinking about this in the context of...
Long fascinated with Montessori Education over here (and all things early childhood), and I was recently lucky to train the entire team over at City Garden Montessori School in St. Louis. We got to talking about adding Buffer Time (aka strategic breaks) into our days,...
At our recent community pop-up Together Your Summer, the topic of job searches and role transitions was top of mind for many, especially since a lot of us operate on an academic year cycle. I then popped over here to check in with the hive mind and all kinds of great...
In class last week, we received a great question from an Area Superintendent of a large, urban school district. In short, she noted that Togetherness systems had served her well as a school leader, and she was curious when and how to scale Togetherness. I loved this...
